/āā/Per Washington Post. Being reported on CNN. Link below.
Special counsel Robert S. Mueller III expressed his concerns in a letter to William P. Barr after the attorney general publicized Mueller's principal conclusions. Mueller also pressed Barr in a phone call to release executive summaries of his report.
Special counsel Robert S. Mueller III wrote a letter in late March complaining to Attorney General William P. Barr that a four-page memo to Congress describing the principal conclusions of the investigation into President Trump ādid not fully capture the context, nature, and substanceā of Muellerās work, according to a copy of the letter reviewed Tuesday by The Washington Post.
At the time the letter was sent on March 27, Barr had announced that Mueller had not found a conspiracy between the Trump campaign and Russian officials seeking to interfere in the 2016 presidential election. Barr also said Mueller had not reached a conclusion about whether Trump had tried to obstruct justice, but Barr reviewed the evidence and found it insufficient to support such a charge.
Days after Barrās announcement, Mueller wrote a previously unknown private letter to the Justice Department, which revealed a degree of dissatisfaction with the public discussion of Muellerās work that shocked senior Justice Department officials, according to people familiar with the discussions.
More: Mueller complained to Barr that memo did not capture ācontextā of probe
Good for Mueller speaking out about his report being twisted by Barr.
A Real Attorney General
āWashington pile-ons are never pretty, but this weekās political setup of Attorney General William Barr is disreputable even by Beltway standards,ā The Wall Street Journal editorial board writes.
āDemocrats and the media are turning the AG into a villain for doing his duty and making the hard decisions that special counsel Robert Mueller abdicated . . . This trashing of Bill Barr shows how frustrated and angry Democrats continue to be that the special counsel came up empty in his Russia collusion probe.ā
